Packer templates for Fedora

Overview

This repository contains Packer templates for creating Fedora Vagrant boxes.

Building the Vagrant boxes with Packer

To build all the boxes, you will need VirtualBox

We make use of JSON files containing user variables to build specific versions of Ubuntu. You tell packer to use a specific user variable file via the -var-file= command line option. This will override the default options on the core fedora.json packer template, which builds Fedora 25 by default.

For example, to build Fedora 27 Server, use the following:

$ packer build -var-file=fedora27-server.json fedora.json

If you want to make boxes for a specific desktop virtualization platform, use the -only parameter. For example, to build Fedora 27 Server for VirtualBox:

$ packer build -only=virtualbox-iso -var-file=fedora27-server.json fedora.json

The boxcutter templates currently support the following desktop virtualization strings:

virtualbox-iso - VirtualBox desktop virtualization

Proxy Settings

The templates respect the following network proxy environment variables and forward them on to the virtual machine environment during the box creation process, should you be using a proxy:

http_proxy
https_proxy
ftp_proxy
rsync_proxy
no_proxy

Tests

The tests are written in Serverspec and require the vagrant-serverspec plugin to be installed with:

vagrant plugin install vagrant-serverspec

Possible values for the CM variable are:

nocm - No configuration management tool
chef - Install Chef
puppet - Install Puppet
salt - Install Salt

You can also specify a variable CM_VERSION, if supported by the configuration management tool, to override the default of latest. The value of CM_VERSION should have the form x.y or x.y.z, such as CM_VERSION := 11.12.4

The variable UPDATE can be used to perform OS patch management. The default is to not apply OS updates by default. When UPDATE := true, the latest OS updates will be applied.

The variable HEADLESS can be set to run Packer in headless mode. Set HEADLESS := true, the default is false.

The variable PACKER can be used to set the path to the packer binary. The default is packer.

The variable ISO_PATH can be used to set the path to a directory with OS install images. This override is commonly used to speed up Packer builds by pointing at pre-downloaded ISOs instead of using the default download Internet URLs.

Acknowledgments